Friday, June 29, 2012

Picture Book #15 A Drop of Water (Orbis Pictus Award Winner)



Author: Walter Wick

Title: A Drop of Water: A book of Science and Wonder

Illustrator: Walter Wick

Readability: 5.4

Genre: Picture Book

Subgenre: Informational

Theme: Water can do many things

Character: N/A

Award(s) date of publication: Robert F. Sibert; 1997

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Summary:

This book deals with the different characteristics of water and what water can do. The book deals with water vapor, water elastic surface, how steel floats and why the water waves, why when in water the paintbrush  is in the water it spreads out  then  comes back together. This book explains the different definitions that comes along with water such as adhesion, capillary attraction, to name a few. Soap bubbles, bubble shapes, and molecules in motion to name a few. Throughout the book there are mind blowing pictures of water and what it can do.

How to use in the classroom:

This book would be a great to use along with the text book.  The students can break down different of the book to develop their own understanding about water. Also, Walter Wick has different Science experiments for students to do in the back of the book that would be great do with students. For an English students could do a writing activity imagining they were a water drop and the things they see during the day.

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